Radio NZ parrots the international corporate media verbatim.
Obama
vows action against Russia over election hacks
President
Barack Obama: "We need to take action and we will." Photo: RNZ
26
November, 2014
US
President Barack Obama says the United States will respond to Russian
cyber attacks that the intelligence community concluded were part of
an effort to influence the US presidential election.
US
intelligence officials said hackers working for Russia hacked into
the emails of the Democratic Party and a key Hillary Clinton aide.
The
intelligence agencies said they had overwhelming evidence Russian
hackers linked to the Kremlin were behind the hacks.
On
Thursday, a White House spokesman said President Vladimir Putin was
involved.
The
Kremlin denies the allegations.
Republican
president-elect Donald Trump has dismissed the claim as "ridiculous"
and politically motivated.
Mr
Obama told National Public Radio: "I think there's no doubt that
when any foreign government tries to impact on the integrity of our
elections, that we need to take action and we will, at a time and a
place of our own choosing.
"Some
of it may be explicit and publicised. Some of it may not be.
"Mr
Putin is well aware of my feelings about this, because I spoke to him
directly about it," Mr Obama said.
-
BBC
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